My suggestion for a board game would be SHL Shadowrun, based off the popular tabletop pen+paper RPG Shadowrun. SHL Shadowrun would take place in the distant future, in the cybernetic utopia of Season 420. By this point in the SHL's existence, players would be augmented with cybernetic implants to allow for more powerful slapshots and devastating body checks. Your player, a low-end scout for (insert favourite team here), begins to suspect that certain SHL players are being possessed by magical spirits or being mind-controlled by cyberware to do weird things on ice. With the help of your best friends Mike Izzy IV and Mikhail Caesar, you try and find the source of the problems. The final boss ends up being the demonic spirit of vengeful bench player Cleo Green, who transforms into a dragon and has to be defeated by your party using a cybernetically enhanced stick known as the CCM Goalie-Killer 3000

Of course, this would just be the suggested default campaign included in the box for newer players, and it could be customised as you please to create your own personal story of intrigue in the world of SHL hockey.